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On Wall Street September 1, 2011 Elizabeth Wine |
Active Resistance It's not been a good recovery for actively managed mutual funds. Investors have been steadily pulling money out, while sending waves of cash into passively managed index funds and exchange-traded funds. |
Investment Advisor September 2009 Mike Patton |
Tactical Versus Strategic In strategic asset allocation, long-term capital expectations are integrated with a client's goals and a target allocation is established. With tactical asset allocation, adjustments are made based on short-term expectations for an asset class. |
On Wall Street February 1, 2013 Matthew Lemieux |
Fine-Tuning a Portfolio Gets Year off to a Good Start The beginning of a year offers an opportunity to see how investments align with life goals. |
Registered Rep. April 14, 2011 Diana Britton |
Advisors Get More Flexible Advisors and investors are turning to mutual funds with more flexible mandates to cushion their portfolios against the unknowns. |
Financial Planning December 1, 2008 Suzanne McGee |
The Perfect Alternative Is there an asset class for your clients portfolios whose price moves in the opposite direction to that of mainstream investments like stocks and bonds? |
Financial Advisor March 2006 Marla Brill |
Courting A New Crowd Rydex Investments hopes to move beyond market timers to mainstream financial advisors. |
The Motley Fool June 10, 2010 Scott Holsopple |
The $5.5 Billion Mistake Are you throwing your retirement money out the window? |
On Wall Street June 1, 2011 Carl Resnick |
ETFs: The Ideal Asset Allocation Tool? True diversification has become the primary focus of smart advisors. To the benefit of these advisors and their clients, a wide range of well-built exchange-traded funds has emerged to represent just about every asset class available. |
Investment Advisor February 2009 |
A New Benchmark for Advisors With many advisors using an asset allocation strategy, the S&P 500 is no longer a great benchmark against which to set your pace. Take a look at these new benchmarks. |
The Motley Fool January 19, 2010 Amanda B. Kish |
The Hottest Trillion-Dollar Investment Read these tips before jumping into the popular world of exchange-traded funds. |
Financial Advisor December 2008 Marla Brill |
ETF Growth Expected What was bad news for the stock market in 2008 may prove to be good news for ETFs in 2009. |
Investment Advisor April 2010 Robert J. Lindner |
Expert's Corner: Putting It in Neutral Advisors can improve a client's portfolio by using a market neutral strategy. |
Financial Advisor April 2010 Marla Brill |
A Good Complement More advisors think both bond mutual funds and ETFs belong in client portfolios. |
Financial Advisor April 2010 Jeff Schlegel |
An Alternative World A growing number of financial advisors and their clients are clamoring for alternative investments in the wake of the massive market maelstrom of '08-'09, but it's a broad space requiring lots of due diligence. |
Financial Advisor December 2011 Marla Brill |
Still Ahead ETF assets have more than quadrupled since 2004, but mutual funds are still favored by advisors. |
Financial Planning July 1, 2009 Donald Jay Korn |
Down But Not Out For mutual funds, 2008 was the year of the ebb tide: Long-term funds saw net outflows of $226 billion. The carnage continued in the first quarter of 2009, when an additional $43 billion flowed out of equity funds. |
Financial Planning September 1, 2013 Craig L. Israelsen |
Mutual Funds vs. ETFs: Which Performance Better? When a portfolio of mutual funds vies against a portfolio of ETFs, which one comes out on top? |
The Motley Fool October 4, 2011 Dan Caplinger |
Watch Out for These Costly Investments High costs can make ETFs look bad. |
Financial Planning May 1, 2011 Merk & Osborne |
Currency Play If clients take a more tactical, short-term approach to investing and are willing to accept a higher level of volatility, they may prefer ETFs or ETNs. Clients seeking diversification benefits over the medium and long term would likely prefer mutual funds. |
The Motley Fool September 9, 2011 Amanda B. Kish |
How to Make Money With Mutual Funds A lowdown on mutual funds. |
Financial Planning November 1, 2009 Donald Jay Korn |
Loaded for Bear A year after the worldwide nosedive, though, things look brighter for managed accounts. |
Financial Advisor August 2005 Sydney LeBlanc |
ETFs and SMAs: Side By Side Now, separately managed accounts can mean anything, from an entire basket of different separate account managers to an account also holding mutual funds, cash, and exchange-traded funds, or ETFs. Of these companion investment vehicles, ETFs are proving to be one of the most popular. |
Financial Planning October 1, 2009 Donna Mitchell |
ETFs Activated A new white paper examines the performance of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) from 1998 to 2008, and provides insight into what is ahead for ETFs. |
The Motley Fool April 11, 2008 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
6 Hot Mutual Fund Trends The trend is your friend. Take a look at what's hot in the mutual fund industry. |
Investment Advisor January 1, 2011 Ben Warwick |
Investment Advisor's January 2011 Issue: Ben Warwick Won't Compromise on Getting Returns. Period Clients must take risks to make returns. Here's the right way to do it in 2011. |
On Wall Street September 1, 2013 Tom Roseen |
The Rise of Asset Allocation Funds The modern version of balanced funds, these portfolios continue to make inroads with investors. |
Entrepreneur February 2006 Scott Bernard Nelson |
Over the Wall China holds a host of investment possibilities. The problem for investors -- and for companies that want a piece of China -- is that the business landscape is still littered with landmines. Mutual funds or exchange-traded funds remain the best bets. |
On Wall Street October 1, 2013 Jeff Tjornehoj |
Are Alts Making the Grade? The most recent crop of alt fund contenders are performing like a classroom full of underachievers. |
Registered Rep. April 25, 2011 Brad Zigler |
Managed Futures Mainstreamed Changes in the regulatory scheme have since allowed the creation of lower-cost commodity-based mutual funds and exchange-traded products which can be marketed by Series 7 folk and RIA associates. |
Investment Advisor April 2008 |
Upgrades The year-old Rydex Managed Futures Strategy Fund has attracted approximately $400 million in assets... Bear Stearns Asset Management launched the Bear Stearns Current Yield Fund... Sun Life Financial announced several new investment options... |
Financial Advisor October 2005 David Reilly |
Is Risk Really A Four Letter Word? Once esoteric investing strategies, such as managed currency and commodity futures, real estate, short selling, arbitrage and event-driven strategies, allow portfolio risk management to be taken to the next level. Advisers, take note. |
Financial Advisor April 2007 Matt Hougan |
Layer Upon Layer With the surging interest in exchange-traded funds, it was only a matter of time until someone decided to package them together into a fund-of-funds structure. But are they the best option for your financial advisory clients? |
Financial Advisor July 2010 Jeff Schlegel |
Seeking Alpha, Avoiding Beta Advisors turn to alternative investments in search of returns without the volatility. |
Investment Advisor January 2006 Jeff Joseph |
Hedgeworld Hedge Fund Focus: Full Speed Ahead for Hedge Funds SEC regulation, demand for additional transparency, and tales of occasional fraud are but speed bumps on a trajectory that could see hedge fund assets quadruple by the end of the decade. |
The Motley Fool November 25, 2008 Dan Caplinger |
Did Asset Allocation Work? Some funds claimed to protect you from the downturn. Did they deliver? |
The Motley Fool December 22, 2003 Mathew Emmert |
REIT-allocate Your Portfolio A look at the diversification and income-producing benefits of Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs), along with some conservative strategies for putting REITs to work in your portfolio. |
Financial Planning October 1, 2008 April Recksiek |
Index Battle Investors who want to build an index-based portfolio have two viable mechanisms: index-based mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs). |
The Motley Fool November 4, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
This Will Change the Way You Invest Charles Schwab is preparing to offer ETFs in a way that few have seen before: free of charge. |
Financial Advisor July 2011 Marla Brill |
Schwab's Low-Cost ETF Gamble Schwab is undercutting competitors with low fees, but still faces a challenge in differentiating its ETFs from those offered by more established players. |
Financial Planning August 1, 2008 William Harding |
A Different Mix As investors suffer through this year's unstable market, the wounded are talking about alternative investments. |
Financial Advisor September 2011 Brad Zigler |
Running The Numbers ETFs are supposed to be cheap, but can they outperform the market, too? |
On Wall Street April 1, 2010 Elizabeth Wine |
ETFs and Closed-End Funds: New Strategies for a New Day The range of ETFs continues to grow and advisors are graduating to the next level of sophistication, from the traditional use of gaining quick access to a sector or country, to now delivering alpha to clients. |
Investment Advisor January 2006 Callahan & Howard |
Risky Business The primary goal of financial advisors is to make life less risky for clients. But using style boxes to determine risk in a portfolio is a fool's errand. |
Registered Rep. March 1, 2003 Grove & Prince |
The Affluent Are Searching for Relief in Alternatives The rich shouldn't care if it's a bull or bear market. That's because the rich have so many investment options -- they can go completely short, or pick a cocktail of alternative investments, that, theoretically, could hedge away risk. Surveys show the affluent are doing exactly that. |
Financial Advisor September 2010 Paul R. Sanford |
You Are Not Yale Yale's David F. Swensen held the unofficial title of investment genius for many years until his model nose-dived with everyone else's in the 2008 crash. |
The Motley Fool May 7, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
Do This Before You Buy (or Sell) the Rally With the downs and ups of the market, how much of your money should you have in stocks right now? If you look at the rally and say "as much as possible," then you haven't learned as much from the bear market as you should have. |
Registered Rep. August 16, 2010 Brad Zigler |
Commodity Funds or Commodity Exchange-traded Products? The tumult in the equities markets has forced a lot of investors and advisors to consider diversifying their portfolios with alternative asset classes. |
Registered Rep. November 10, 2010 Diana Britton |
Advisor Appetite For Absolute Return Growing While growing, advisors surveyed still largely view absolute return as a satellite holding, with only 16 percent viewing it as a core holding. |
The Motley Fool December 8, 2010 Dan Caplinger |
Are U.S. Investors Coming Home? ETF flows are starting to change direction. |
On Wall Street September 1, 2008 J Gibson Watson |
The Sleeping Bear Has Emerged. Now What? The hardest-hit market segments are often the ones that will lead the pack during the subsequent recovery. |